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Vampire is an Uncommon Joker that removes Enhancements from your scored cards and permanently increases its multiplier when it does. It removes Enhancements before their effect occurs, meaning that the enhancement will not affect your hand's score.

This Joker cannot receive the Perishable sticker.

Interactions[]

Vampire removes Enhancements before their effect occurs, meaning the Enhancements cannot activate. All scored cards will get their Enhancements removed. Vampire also cannot change the type of Poker Hand retroactively, for example removing Wild would still keep the Poker Hand as Flush.

There are a few notable interactions:

  • Debuffed: Debuffed cards are considered not to have any Modifier including Enhancements, so Vampire cannot remove Enhancements from debuffed cards.
  • Wild: wild enhancement gets removed, and card scores if it would have scored for the original hand.
  • Glass: glass enhancement gets removed, no X2 Mult, and there is no chance for the card to break.
  • Stone: stone enhancement gets removed and card returns to what it originally was, no +50 Chips, but card will always score for this hand (the type of hand played is not affected).
  • Editions: Editions are not Enhancements, will not get removed by Vampire, and work normally.
  • Seals: Seals are not Enhancements, will not get removed by Vampire, and work normally.

Synergies[]

Decks[]

Due to the need of constantly finding enhanced cards to feed the Vampire, the Zodiac Deck Zodiac Deck, Magic Deck Magic Deck or the Black Deck Black Deck will work well for the vampire. Additionally, the Ghost Deck Ghost Deck also provides good utility to find Enhancements for the Vampire to feed upon. Spectral cards such as Incantation, Grim or Familiar will provide a net positive in enhanced cards even though the deck will become larger as a result. Cards such as Aura also provide utility in that the edition of a card does not get eaten by the vampire: a Holographic card stays holographic after the hand is played, hence increasing the base mult of the hand.

Poker Hands[]

Since this joker will consume the Enhancements before they get applied, hands with a high base mult are preferred.

Jokers[]

Vampire combos well with jokers that either generate Tarot Cards, or enhancements themselves (such as Midas Mask Midas Mask) to generate a steady supply of Enhancements to eat.

If using the Midas Mask combo, the order will affect this. If the Midas Mask is placed first, face cards will be changed to gold cards, and the Vampire will immediately consume the effect to increase its multiplier. However, if the Midas Mask is placed after the Vampire, the cards are made golden without consuming the effect. Thus, players could create infinite enhancement supplies for Vampire either by having Midas Mask turn face cards to Gold first then Vampire consumes them, or have some Gold Cards in advance and have Vampire consume them, and they immediately turns into Gold Cards again by Midas Mask.

Jokers such as DNA DNA or Marble Joker Marble Joker also provide a good source of Enhancements (as you can play a single enhanced card with DNA before Vampire to copy it with its enhancement before feeding the Vampire).

Splash Splash is a useful supporting Joker that guarantee five enhanced cards to be scored, in the event that they can't form a five-card hands.

A second Vampire Vampire cannot scale at the same time as the first, as only the left-most of the two will scale. To get the best score possible, it is recommended to try to keep them at the same Mult, by swapping them around.

Consumables[]

Vampire requires a large amount of enhanced cards to scale, therefore consumables that adds enhancement are important to scale this Joker fast. Tarot cards like Tarot The Magician The Magician, Tarot The Empress The Empress and Tarot The Hierophant The Hierophant are preferred as they enhance up to 2 cards at once. Tarot The Lovers The Lovers, Tarot The Chariot The Chariot, Tarot The Devil The Devil, Tarot Justice Justice, and Tarot The Tower The Tower are good alternate pick up that enhance 1 card. Tarot Death Death can be used to duplicate an enhanced card as well.

Spectral cards that adds enhanced cards to your deck like Spectral Familiar Familiar, Spectral Grim Grim, and Spectral Incantation Incantation are useful to increase enhanced cards number, but be wary that they could also destroy an enhanced card in your hand as well.

Vouchers[]

Picking up the Tarot Merchant Tarot Merchant voucher may also prove useful to find more tarot cards to apply enhancement with. Similarly, the Illusion Illusion voucher provides additional cards to feed the Vampire with.

Trivia[]

  • Seals and Editions, which are both different from Enhancements, are not removed by Vampire when played.
  • The Vampire is the star of the Challenge Deck Challenge Deck Bram Poker.
  • Vampire's effect reflects vampirism. It drains enhancements from cards, growing stronger while leaving them weaker.
  • This joker's synergy with Midas Mask is jokingly referred to as a "Jojo reference" by the community, due to the character Dio Brando of said series transforming into a vampire due to a cursed mask.

Update History[]

1.0.1f
  • Effect
    • Gains X0.2 Mult per enchantment removed -> gains X0.1 Mult per enhancement removed
    • Removes enchantments from played cards -> only removes enhancement from scoring cards

In other languages[]

Language Name Notes
Chinese (Simplified) 吸血鬼
Chinese (Traditional) 吸血鬼小丑
Dutch Vampier
French Vampire
German Vampir
Indonesian Vampire
Italian Vampiro
Japanese ヴァンパイア
Korean 뱀파이어
Polish Wampir
Portuguese (Brazilian) Vampiro
Russian Вампир
Spanish (Spain) Vampiro
Spanish (Latin America) Vampiro